The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-23
Baseball Notes.


/ western League.
| Frank Bancroft would like to become man
| ager OF the Boston club
| Boston begins the week in fifth, with Phila-
delphia In fourth position
At Lafayette. yesterday, the Danville Piatts
defeated the local club. to 3.
| Kelleher. the pitcher of the Danville en-
| >Platts, has been secured by the Charlottesville
| club.
! Devlin is sick with cramps, and MauIs arm is
| lamS since he pitched the game against New
| York.
six in the fifteen games he has played in this
| season.
Byrne says he is done talking to newspaper
men. Caylor and Won der Abe, he thinks, do
enough for the Association.
Philadelphia Call: The umpire question will
never be settled unless the umpire's salary is
raised and a lock placed on every players lips
There is talk of forming Canadian league for
1888, the proposed membe being London
Toronto, Hamilton, Belleville, Kingston and OF
tawa.
1t is said that Kelly is jealous because John
Morrill, got more votes than he in the best play
ers' canvass. and that feeling isn't doing the
Boston club any good.
1t is probable that the special meeting Of the
American Association at New York on Sept.
8 will be dispensed WITH as another meeting
has been called for Friday at Columbus.
1t cost the Hartford Club management 81. 500
lar in that city. Once Hartford supported
club that was member Of the National League.
Andy Cusick has been given notice that he
will be released by the Philadelphia Club. Man
ager Wrights reason for releasing him is that
he has four other catchers who are better throw
The American Association will try the per-
centage system next year. and cash prize of
$500 or 81, 900 will be hung up for the club win
ming the cham ponship. Such being the case
the st. Louis Browns will not desert.
Boyle and Arundel. of Indianapols; Dorgan,
Mattimore and Deasly. of New York; Bastian
and Casey. of Philadelphia; Mccormick. Morris
and Beecher, of Pittsburg; Wheelock, Cassidy
aud Burdoch, of Boston ODay and Gilligan, of
Washington; YanHaltren, of Chicago. and Con-
way, of Detroit the only League players
who have far failed to make a three-base hit
Frank Campbell. who is reported to have
signed with New York, played in the Harvard
team. He comes from Boston,is twenty-one years
of age, five feet eight inches in height and weighs
$50 pounds. His father is a wealthy resident of
South Boston, and he doesn't care to have Frank
play professionally Young Campbell will only
play this season. It is underst TODD that he will
receive s., 600.
Another plan to do away with the trouble
raised by the umpire question has been proposed
in Chicago, where it is now being tried by the
City League 1t is the employment of two um-
pires at each game. One umpire stands immedi-
ately behind the catcher and pays particular at
end of the battery, in addition to which he is
also required to watch third base. The second
umpire is stationed just back of the pitchers
box and he watches first and second bases and
decides upon all plays made there.
Regarding his fondness for left-handed pitch
ers Manager Harry Wright has this to say:
"All pitchers get in the lower right hand corner
of the box-towarc first base Now, with a
right handed pitcher the ball is thrown squarely
at the batter. This becomes a necessity, the
batsman's lines do not permit him to stand 9TH
erwise than at right angles with the plate. or,
moro properly speaking, his bat would hit a
straight pitched ball at exactly right angle. A
straight pitched ball from a eft-handed pitcher
cuts the plate diagonally. It is harder to hit
such a bail safely. and when you take into
sideration that almost 40 per cent. of pitched
balls straight throws you will the force
of my theory. The drop or raise ball of left
handed man is equally more effective than that
of a right-handed one That it is why favor
left-handed pitchers